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Sunday, 14 October 2012

Football Food Sunday!

I feel like Football Food Sunday doesn't need too much of an introduction any more! We watch football, we eat ridiculous food, that's about it!

Today I picked the recipe in a slightly different way than usual. Ordinarily I just go for whatever seems exciting or whatever we fancy eating but this time I wanted to use a couple of things from my pantry. This is how we ended up making these Barbecue Pulled "Pork" Sandwiches from Joni's blog. Sometime in the last year or two I heard about a new thing in vegan cooking, using jackfruit to imitate pulled pork! Crazy times! Now I'd never actually heard of pulled pork but I was still excited to try something new & I eventually tracked down canned jackfruit in water (as opposed to syrup) at an ethnic grocery store in Reading when I was visiting one of my best friends last summer.

I was pleased to see that this recipe also used a lot of barbecue sauce, we had some left over from a recipe we made months ago and whilst I didn't particularly love it then I didn't want to throw an almost full bottle away!

Obviously we needed to make some buns to enjoy our pulled "pork" in and it only felt right to use a recipe from Celine & Joni's book Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites. I chose the Scarborough Fair Buns for no other reason than that they sounded good & I had all of the ingredients in the house! Joni also suggests serving these with coleslaw so that's just what I did - nothing fancy here, just grated cabbage, carrot, some Veganaise & a bit of wholegrain mustard. Kinda like the one I made for Come Dine With Me back in April.

The Barbecue Pulled "Pork" was really easy to throw together, it needs to spend an hour simmering but that's pretty low stress cooking if you ask me!

I feel bad saying that we didn't love these but we kinda didn't, we loved the herby buns and we were definitely into the jackfruit-as-pulled-pork thing but that barbecue sauce that we didn't love before? Yeah, strangely we still didn't love it, and unsurprisingly when the sauce makes up the majority of the recipes flavour it's kinda important to like it! On the plus side I still have a can of jackfruit and we will be making these again, we'll just be using a different barbecue sauce!

23 comments:

That's too bad about the barbecue sauce! The sandwich does look really good, I bet it can taste amazing with the right sauce. I keep reading about jackfruit but I've never seen it anywhere - will have to keep an eye out. Hope you still had a great football Sunday!

Despite the bad BBQ sauce, your sandwich still looks lovely. I've never tried jackfruit before because it scares me! I don't know if you have access to VegNews magazine, but their April 2011 issue has an amazing recipe for barbecue sauce. It's my favorite and I make it often.

I've only done the jackfruit thing once before, but I've been meaning to do it again. I like the idea of smothering it with barbecue sauce, so something like this could be the way to go! The barbecue sauce from Vegan Diner is the only one I've made myself, but it was good! Pretty sure I added chipotle powder, but I add that stuff to anything that I can.

Ahhh so that's what the jackfruit is supposed to represent! Pulled pork, now I am less scared.Thank you for giving me the courage to try a new vegan staple.This is so funny, you have been the coment before mine on at least the last ten blogs I've read. I've been here reading a few of your nifty posts and even read about your great wedding, how do I follow?

I have been meaning to try this jackfruit-as-pulled-pork thing for years, and obviously I should get with the program already and track some down, 'cause that sandwich looks great! Better luck with your next bottle of barbecue sauce :)

I am just rewatching the first season of Dexter. She constantly talks about pulled pork sandwiches. Now I feel like I need to watch the next episode with one of these in my hand. Although I am the pickiest person ever when it comes to bbq sauces.

It looks great, shame about the sauce. I can recommend bbq sauce in Vegan with a Vengeance, it's got pomegranate molasses in it and liquid smoke, if you've not tried that one before. I put a bit of sweet chilli sauce in it rather than chilli powder.

Oh hon, so sorry about the BBQ sauce. I know how it goes. I don't think I am picky about my BBQ sauces, but I do have a favorite: the pomegranate BBQ sauce from Vegan With A Vengeance, only HOLD the pomegranate. I think it's the best ever. Here's the recipe with a few minor changes: http://cracktheplates.com/2010/09/the-ultimate-vegan-bbq-sauce/ Let me know if you try it!!

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